Small Clauses (SCs) are structures that lack tense, aspect, modality (TAM), and agreement. They differ internally from complete sentences, featuring a nonfinite [DP XP] configuration, yet they consist of grammatical units bearing propositional content that form a predicative relationship. Literature on Turkish SCs has so far analyzed such clauses into groups such as locative, resualtative and descriptive/depictive SCs. In this study, we aim to explore the details of resultative SCs in Turkish considering that such an in-depth analysis could contribute to the literature of SCs in general. This SC type is a resultative construction and it adjoins to the matrix clause by construing a result relation with a resultative matrix verb on a sentential basis. Bearing this in mind, first we will touch upon the relevant literature, and then analyze the constructional properties of such SCs. Then, we will extend this analysis with ‘resultative SCs with light verbs’, and present independent grammatical evidence in favor of this claim. We will employ voice alternation, modification, ellipsis and inflection/tense marking tests on this new type of SCs.

small clause, syntax, resultative, tense-aspect-modality.